Weapons Of Peace

The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori is best known for the teaching method that bears her name, but historian Erica Moretti reframes Montessori's work, showing that pacifism was the foundation of her pioneering efforts in psychiatry and pedagogy.

In the midst of a chaotic, uncertain world, Weapons of Peace brings stability and hope through the most powerful tool in your spiritual arsenal-peace. Filled with gripping, life-changing testimony, Weapons of Peace gives you encouragement and power to overcome fear and worry. And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God's will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace by those who work for and make peace [in themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement, and harmony between individuals, with undisturbedness, in a peaceful mind free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts (James 3:18 AMP)." "Greatly tormented by fears as a child, I have learned by personal experience how to overcome fear and to walk in peace. The Holy Spirit has taught me how to speak and release the peace of God over others, causing some immediate and dramatic deliverances and healings," writes author Mary Trask. Weapons of Peace shows why peace in these last days is not only fundamental to the Kingdom of God but is also a weapon for establishing the Kingdom of God both in your life and the lives of others.

This book shows that attempts to repress religion produce the very violent religious extremism that states seek to avoid.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Military alliances drive international politics. They embody conflict and cooperation among states and shape the international political landscape. Despite the profound effect alliances have on the course of international politics, many gaps remain in our understanding of their formation, continuance, and cohesion. In this book, Patricia Weitsman introduces a comprehensive theory that unifies current ideas about alliances and examines the relationship between threat and alliance politics under conditions of both war and peace. Examining military alliances before and during World War I, Weitsman provides a new interpretation of the politics of the great powers of this period. She reveals that states frequently form alliances to keep peace among the allied countries, not simply to counter shared external threats. Though alliances may be perceived by others to present a unified and threatening front, countries often face significant threats from within their own alliances. It is this paradox that underscores Weitsman's theory: although alliances are frequently forged to sustain peace, they may, in fact, increase the prospects of war.

This book, first published in 1978, analyses the development, uses and effects of conventional anti-personnel weapons such as rifles and machine guns, grenades, bombs, shells and mines. It provides the historical, military, technical and clinical background to the international legal discussions as part of the ongoing efforts to prohibit or restrict the uses of some of the more inhumane and indiscriminate of these weapons, the most successful being the 1997 Ottawa Treaty that banned the use of anti-personnel mines.